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Samuel Workman

I am a political scientist working at the intersection of public policy, data science, and statistics. I specialize in public policy, the bureaucracy, regulatory politics, and statistics. My interests involve text-as-data, machine learning, and statistical modeling, especially classificationj stochastic processes, and maximum likelihood methods. I teach courses in public policy, agenda setting, regulatory policy, and statistics. My current academic projects examine congressional bureaucracies, the regulatory politics of education policy, and agenda setting in food policy.

I also provide statistical consulting in the private sector, specializing in the grocery floral category. My work focuses on data-driven decision-making and management, custom reporting, and data-informed programming.

Skills & Experience

  • Policy research, data management, statistical analysis & modeling, presentation, reporting & data visualization, machine learning
  • Project Management, grant writing, team leadership & coordination, public speaking
  • Market, sales, and inventory analysis, reporting, and visualization, data-driven decision-making and management
  • Languages: R, LATEX, SAS, SPSS, VBA, SQL, Markdown, CSS, HTML (limited)
  • Applications: Rstudio, WinEdt, Beamer, binb, xaringan, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, SQLite, MS Access

Selected Positions

20202016

Associate Professor of Political Science

The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK USA
  • Faculty Affiliate, National Institute for Risk & Resilience
  • Faculty Member, Big Data & Statistics Working Group
  • Faculty Affiliate, The Comparative Agendas Project, University of Texas
20192018

Chief Data & Statistical Consultant

Hi-Rise Balloons & Floral Supplies, Inc. Austin, TX USA
  • Statistical Analysis, Reporting, & Visualization
  • Custom reporting & data-informed programming
  • Sales, Marketing, & Inventory Analysis

Education

20092005

Ph.D., Political Science

University of Washington Seattle, WV
  • Fields: American Politics, Public Policy, & Research Methodology
  • Dissertation: Economizing Attention: Agendas and the Influence of Bureaucracy in American Politics
  • Graduate Fellow of the Center for American Politics & Public Policy

Scholarship

20212018

Organizational Problem Solving and the Use of Research in Education Policy

National Science Foundation, Science of Organizations, Award No. 1827494, $455,640
  • Samuel Workman (PI) and Deven Carlson (Co-PI)
2017

Problem Definition and Information Provision by Federal Bureaucrats

Cognitive Systems Research, Vol. 43 (June), pp. 140–152
  • Samuel Workman, JoBeth Shafran, & Tracey Bark
2009

Information Processing and Policy Dynamics

Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37 no. 1, pp. 75–92
  • Samuel Workman, Bryan D. Jones, & Ashley E. Jochim
2008

Organizing Attention: Responses of the Bureaucracy to Agenda Disruption

Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Vol. 18 no. 4, pp. 517–541
  • Peter J. May, Samuel Workman, & Bryan D. Jones
2006

Policy Coherence and Policy Domains

Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 34 no. 3, pp. 381–403
  • Peter J. May, Joshua Sapotichne, & Samuel Workman

Upcoming Courses

2020

Maximum Likelihood Estimation

University of Oklahoma, P SC 5940 Norman, OK USA
  • 2017 & 2020
2020

Bureaucracy & Citizenship

The University of Oklahoma, P SC 3113 Norman, OK USA
  • 2014 & 2020